Montegut

Help! Trying to navigate the Case website.

Can't find anything on degree requirements and core curriculum at Case.

Is there a freshman English requirement, Foreign Language, so many hours of humanities/social sciences, for engineering majors, and courses to choose from.

Found science required courses, but no guidance as to what other courses need to be taken to fulfill degree requirements.

casegirl

The student handbook is your friend
Case Policies and Procedures - Case University Office of Student Affairs
I believe the most recent ones only note CHANGES to policy, so I believe academic guidelines are in the 06-07 handbook.

Montegut

Holy Toledo! Oops, wrong city. Still lost as to how much English, Humanities, etc, or is that all under that SAGES program? Is SAGES a requirement or a recommended program?

mathandpi

Hi, I am a current Case student as well and will try to answer your questions.

The SAGES program is a requirement for all students, no matter the major. It includes a 'first seminar' two 'university seminars' a 'departmental seminar' and a 'senior capstone project.' The first three of these are all akin to English composition classes, although also try to incorporate more discussion and focus on a particular theme.
The SAGES 'curriculum' also incorporates a series of 'gen eds.' The exact requirements depend on what school (College of Arts and Sciences, School Of Engineering, etc) your major is in. To really see what they actually are, view the FYI guide for new students here:
http://www.case.edu/provost/ugstudie...IGuide0910.pdf
The requirements for the College of Arts and Science majors, for instance, are on page 38 of the guide (which displays as page 33 on my PDF reader) Engineering requirements are on page 64 (57 of my PDF reader)

There is no foreign language requirement, but languages can satisfy the 'arts and humanities' requirement, for instance.

Aerospace2011

It should be noted that there is something possibly in the works to except the Case School of Engineering (Engineers and a few Sciences) from the SAGES requirement and return Engineers to a basic Gen. Ed. requirement. Furthermore some majors in engineering require x number of hours in of humanities courses. In Mech Eng. all humanities type classes work out to 3 semesters of real SAGES and 4 other elective humanities classes. The other 2 'SAGES' classes in the Department were required courses before the change.

The reason for the grumblings is that most Engineers seem to think SAGES a waste of time as they are writing classes wrapped up to look nice and science-like but if in a discussion one gets into any technical detail about a subject those in either the arts or the science students get lost. (IE a discussion about science and religion may stray to the works of a Renaissance writer or into quantum physics the only deciding factor in that is the Prof)

Montegut

Thanks for your post. One thing I'm becoming more aware of is that one has to compromise. If you want a school with your major, with a good program in your major, with good career and grad school preparation, you're going to have to do more than just take your regular major classes and gen. ed. Even your state schools are requiring more rigorous curriculum, especially if you're majoring in one of their premier majors. What is the saying, He who gives much will get much in return? Or put simply, Nothing in life is free.

casegirl

Well it depends on how you define gen ed. I'm an engineer and haven't been able to take anything other than gen eds and major classes (because SAGES and humanities and social science electives ARE gen eds).